Gary Barlow shares anger over tragic death of daughter Poppy admitting he can't find peace
dailyrecord.co.ukGary Barlow has shared his ongoing struggle with the tragic loss of his daughter Poppy, who was stillborn in August 2012. He has opened up on his anger, admitting he has struggled to find "peace" in the last 12 years.Poppy, Gary and his wife Dawn's fourth child, was born still just days before Gary was set to perform at the closing ceremony of the London Olympics with his band Take That.In a rare public reflection, Gary opened up about how Poppy's passing has affected him and how he feels a sense of bitter injustice that this had to happen to his family, reports the Mirror.Gary confessed: "I don’t talk about this in great detail and I literally don’t because I’m still kind of figuring it out a little bit.
My wife’s emotions were completely different to mine. I’ve been angry for a long time about that, I haven’t really found peace with it yet."The star also expressed his fear that Poppy's death could have led to him and Dawn , as many couples who experience such a loss struggle to move past it.
However, the Back For Good songwriter and former dancer Dawn, parents to three other children, Daniel, Emily and Daisy, found that they grew closer as a couple.Speaking on The Imperfects podcast - where people bravely share their struggles and imperfections - Gary said: "We had a worrying statistic when it happened to us, something like 95 percent of couples split up when something like that happens to them.
I think it comes down to men deal with it differently than the women do. My wife does far better than I do, she’s a much stronger person than I am.
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